The documents were originally expected to sell for about $1 million
. But after a 12-minute bidding war, the price skyrocketed and was eventually sold to an unidentified buyer for $8.8 million.eventually recovered by Marquis d’Amat of France
The manifesto consists of 14 pages written by future International Olympic Committee founder Pierre de Coubertin, who presented his argument for the re-establishment of the Olympic games at the annual meeting of the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques in 1892.
“That is enough to encourage me to think now about the second part of my program,” he continued. “I hope that you will help me as you have helped me thus far and that, with you, I shall be able to continue and realize, on a basis appropriate to the conditions of modern life, this grandiose and beneficent work: the re-establishment of the Olympic Games.”
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